Tags are used to classify and organize games in Flashpoint for easier searching. Here, they have been organised into categories. You may use multiple tags per game, and you can use the category headers as tags too (except Other, Themes, Content Warnings, Franchises and Game Engines). If there is a tag that you feel would be useful, please ask a Staff Member on the Discord server, and we'll see if it's something that should be added. We don't want tags to be too specific, to the point where a tag exists solely for one game.

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Action

These games are active and action-packed, whether they involve running, jumping, shooting, or something else.

Tag

Description

Example

Artillery

Games where you use various weapons, setting the power and angle, to fight your enemy.

Tank Wars

Brawler

Progress through areas, beating up goons as you go; usually 2D.

Stick Brawl

Fighting

Two characters face off using combos and special techniques.

Samurai Fighters

First-Person Shooter

The game is played from the point of view of the character firing the weapon.

Sierra 7

Platformer

Progress through one or more stages by jumping from object to object.

Super Mario 63

Rail Shooter

The game is played with a viewpoint that moves automatically, with no input available to the player.

Xiao Xiao no. 4

Shoot 'Em Up

Move freely horizontally and vertically to shoot enemies with projectiles, while avoiding theirs.

Cookie Crisp Space Flight Shooter

Shooter

Any game where you use guns to shoot enemies.

Alien Hominid

Shooting Gallery

Move your cursor to shoot targets on a usually stationary playfield, and rack up lots of points.

Pokemon Shooting Range

Vertically-Scrolling Shooter

The game is played with a playfield that scrolls from bottom to top (usually in a ship).

Enigmata 2

Adventure

In Adventure games, the player experiences an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle solving.

Tag

Description

Example

Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose a path at specific junctions and see where the story takes you.

The Henry Stickmin Series

Dating Sim

Pick options to take boys or girls on dates.

SimGirls

Escape the Room

A subset of the Adventure genre where you're in a single room / low amount of rooms, a general lack of story, and puzzles to solve to get out of it.

Cube Escape: The Cave

Metroidvania

Adventure games that feature an interconnected world, explored by acquiring new items and unlocking new areas.

Nuclear Autumn

Point and Click

A specific subset of adventure games where your only controls are the mouse.

Easy Joe

Roguelike

You have one life. Don't die, or you'll lose most if not all of your progress.

Yet Another Roguelike

RPG

Games focused less on combat and more on exploration and puzzle solving. May or may not have detailed character stats.

Sonny

Visual Novel

Story based games that consist almost entirely of reading and picking choices. Often with static backgrounds and characters.

I woke up next to you again.

Arcade

Arcade games have easily graspable gameplay and a focus on getting a high score.

Tag

Description

Example

Breakout

Bounce a ball from a paddle to break all the bricks in a level.

bloXplatter

Clicker

A game where you primarily click to increase numbers.

OSTM

Dodge

You control a character, dodging or avoiding obstacles.

Cubefield

Idle

A game where numbers go up while you're away. Most of the incremental games are idle ones.

Progress Quest

Launch

A game where you throw your character to see how far you get. Buy upgrades to shoot yourself further next time.Not to be confused with the Toss tag.

Learn to Fly

Pinball

A game typically involving two paddles, a ball with realistic physics, and various objects on a play field that give you points when hit.

Pinbill

Pong

Games specifically based on Pong. Other paddle-based games will most likely use either the Breakout or Pinball tag.

PONGS

Rhythm

Press the right buttons to the beat of the music.

F2Jam

Rock-Paper-Scissors

A game based off the classic three-way head-to-head mind game.

Pico vs. Uberkids

Runner

A game that usually involves you moving down a path automatically, avoiding obstacles in order to either get a high score (endless) or finish a level.

Robot Unicorn Attack

Score-Attack

Your goal throughout the game is to get a high score.

Starry Night

Snake

Games based on Snake.

Snake Classic

Stacking

Games that involve stacking objects, typically while keeping them balanced.

Super Stacker

Tetris

Games based on Tetris. Can also be used more generally for other drop-down fast-paced puzzle games such as Puyo Puyo and Dr. Mario.

Tetris 1989

Timing

Similar to rhythm games, these tend to rely on non-musical, usually-visual cues and proper timing. Stacking and slacking games are popular variants.

Feed the King

Toss

Games where you toss or launch a character or object to destroy terrain, reach a location, or collect items. Famous examples of this tag are games based on Angry Birds.Not to be confused with the Launch tag.

Soccer Kicker

Variety

Mini-game collections, or games where the gameplay changes frequently.

Four Second Fury

Driving

Driving games involve steering a vehicle, whether to win a race, get the shortest time, or accomplish another goal.

Tag

Description

Example

Flying

Flying, but not fighting or racing. Usually in a plane or other airborne vehicle.

Into Space 2

Motocross

2D driving games with specific physics enabled.

Dirt Bike

Parking

Park in a precise space, using any vehicle.

Docking Perfection 2

Racing

Try to go faster than either the other drivers or the clock as you drive around a track.

Cyclomaniacs

Educational

Educational games aim to teach something as you play.

Tag

Description

Example

Math

A game that primarily involves solving math problems.

Math Shootout

Quiz

A game that asks you questions about any particular subject matter. Some Quiz games are more parodical than educational, however.

50 States

Tutorial

A game that is more akin to a tutorial, showing you how to do something in an interactive fashion.

Ultimate Spriting Tutorial

Typing

Games that teach you to type efficiently.

Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing!

Puzzle

Puzzle games involve brainteasers of all types, from fast-paced matching games to hidden object puzzles.

Tag

Description

Example

Find

Find things that are hidden within the larger picture, or find differences between pictures.

Pocket Creature ~Hidden Objects~

Jigsaw

Classic style of puzzle where you have differently shaped pieces and need to put them in the right spots.

Ice-Age 4 Jigsaw Puzzle

Lemmings

Use a set of tools per level to guide marching characters from point A to point B.

Oreo O's Creme Team Journey

Logic

Follow a set of rules, whether explained or not, and use methodical thinking to solve puzzles. Usually has no game-over criteria or time limit.

3D Logic 2

Marble Popper

Shoot a round, small object at others of its kind to match groups of the same color, whether in a large mass as in Puzzle Bobble, or along a trail as in Zuma.

Coba

Matching

Games where you match groups of similar objects together.

Ores

Match-3

Swap and move objects around to match colours/shapes in lines.

Bejeweled

Maze

A game where you traverse or solve mazes.

Grow Maze

Memory

Games that require using your memory to constantly remember in-game information, such as the level layout or a sequence of inputs. Memory-match and simon-says games fit this tag.

"Elephants Never Forget!" Memory Game

Sliding

Slide squares or blocks along a grid to create an image or free a specific tile.

8 Square Slider

Sokoban

Games that involve pushing boxes around an area into specific locations.

Aggressive Sokoban

Stealth

The player must move around discreetly to avoid being detected by enemy entities.

The Classroom

Word

Games based on anagrams, crosswords, or similar material, or games that involve manipulating words.

Bookworm

Simulation

This type of a game attempts to simulate something from real life, like a card game or just walking around.

Tag

Description

Example

Card

Card games that don't focus on gambling.

Solitaire

Cooking

Games that revolve around cooking food.

Cooking Academy

Gambling

Bet virtual money, win virtual money.

Blackjack Elf

Mahjong

A game based off the classic Mahjong/Shanghai solitaire tile games.

NingPo MahJong

Solitaire

A game based off the classic solitaire/patience card games.

Golf Solitaire

Sports

A recreation of any real-world sport, like baseball or football.

Stick Cricket

Surgery

Any game that involves performing medical operations on characters.

Elsa Heart Surgery

Tabletop

Games that replicate board games, real-life or invented.

Snakes and Ladders

Time Management

Move resources quickly in order to reach a quota or fulfill some other objective.

Diner Dash

Walking Simulator

A game that involves the player exploring a world by walking around it while the story unfolds around them. (Generally, if a game involves combat, platforming, or anything more than just walking around, it usually isn't a walking simulator.)

Dear Esther

Strategy

Strategy games come in many forms, but usually involve controlling units in an efficient way to defeat some kind of enemy.

Tag

Description

Example

Lane-Based Strategy

You and your opponent have one or more lanes with which to send units down to attack each other.

Plants vs. Zombies Web Version

Node-Based Strategy

The player and the enemy each control 'nodes', which they can send units to and from.

Tentacle Wars

Real-Time Strategy

Create units and buildings, collect resources, and face an opponent who's doing the same things at the same time as you are.

Creeper World: Evermore

Tower Defense

Build various towers to destroy the units your enemies send against you.

Bloons TD 5

Turn-Based

Take turns with an opponent as you create units and buildings, move units, and order attacks.

Sonny

Other

If a game doesn't seem to fit anywhere else, it will probably fit in one of these tags.

Tag

Description

Example

Coloring

Digital coloring pages. Pick a color and color in a picture. Like a coloring book, but in the form of a web game.

SpongeBob: Coloring Book

Demonstration

Technical, engine, or concept demonstration. A tech demo.

Ray Cast Car

Dress Up

Choose outfits and hairstyles for a given character, or create an original character of your own.

RPG Heroine Creator

Ecard

A virtual postcard that you can send to a friend or relative's Email. Usually customizable.

Mama Mirabelle eCard Maker

Experimental

Nontraditional games that often explore new concepts in art or gameplay.

Crumbling Room

Kissing

A strangely prevalent type of game where the gameplay revolves around characters kissing.

Seaside Kissing

Microsite

Not so much a game as an interactive website backed up from the Internet. Often exists to promote another product.

J.K. Rowling Official Site

Scene Creator

Place objects, characters, and other decorations in a diorama. Like Dress Up games, but for a scene.

The Disney Scene Creator games

Slacking

Games where you must complete a series of tasks without being spotted or caught.

Shop Class Slacking

Toy

Games with no objective, things to pass the time.

Interactive Buddy

Themes

Tag

Description

Example

3D

Gameplay takes place in a 3-dimensional environment.

3D City

Adult

A game meant entirely for titillation.

Super Deepthroat

Advergame

Games that are designed purely to promote a commercial product or brand.

Postopia Cereal Factory Pinball

Anime

A game with an anime art style.

Anime Character Maker 2.2

Christmas

Games with a Christmas theme.

Bloons 2: Christmas Expansion

Community Content

Games with community-made content (such as custom levels) included in Flashpoint. Typically also contain some sort of editor.

Happy Wheels

Creative

Anything that facilitates user-created content.

Sonic Scene Creator 5

Daily

A game with content that updates or changes every day.

Drift n' Burn 365

Fantasy

A game with a fantasy setting, such as a fairy tale.

Talesworth Adventure Episode 1

Halloween

Games with a Halloween theme.

Angry Birds Halloween HD

Historical

A game based on a historical event or time period.

Western Front 1914

Holiday

Games with holiday themes that don't fit the more specific holiday tags.

Save The Easter Bunny

Horror

A game that intends to provide an unsettling, creepy, spooky, scary skele-cough atmosphere. Isn't exclusive to any other tag.

Exmortis

Intentionally Infuriating

Intentionally unfair games designed to frustrate the player.

Syobon Action (Cat Mario)

Joke

Games that exist solely to deliver a punchline.

You Have to Burn the Rope

Level Editor

Games with level editors.

Warp

Music

If music is a major part of gameplay, then use this tag. Can also be used with the Creative tag for music creation applications.

Symphony

Physics

Objects in the game are affected by real world/akin to real world forces. Often applies to Puzzle games.

Red Remover

Pixel

A game with a pixelated art style.

Super Mario Bros. Crossover

Politics

Games with political themes or featuring political figures.

Good Guy With A Gun

Religious

Games with religious themes, featuring religious figures, and/or based upon religious books/verses/stories.

Noah's Ark Memo Game

Science Fiction

A game with a futuristic or science fiction theme.

Alternator

Side-Scrolling

A game with a playfield that scrolls from left to right. Usually applies to shoot 'em ups or platformers.

Heli Attack 3

Space

Any game with an outer-space theme.

Planet Cruncher

Stick

Games featuring stick figure characters.

Fighter's Rampage

Story-Driven

Story is a major focus of the game.

Detective Grimoire

Western

Cowboys, six shooters and yeeing your last haw.

Wild West Showdown

Zombie

Any game featuring zombies (usually as enemies).

The Hunt

Content Warnings

Tags that must be included if your game matches the criteria.

Tag

Description

Gore

Contains realistic blood or guts.

Jumpscare

Contains an abrupt image, sound, or event meant to scare or surprise. One example is The Scary Maze Game.

Seizure Warning

Contains flashing effects that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy.

Sexual Content

Contains explicit or implied depictions of sexual acts or themes.

Strong Language

Contains profane, vulgar or offensive language, either spoken or in text.

Franchises

Tags that are associated with a particular franchise or intellectual property, web-game related or not. Note: A game or animation does not need to be officially part of a franchise for its tag to be applicable. In other words, fan-made games and animations based on a particular franchise can still use their respective franchise tag even if they weren't developed/published by the owners of the IP. At least three games in Flashpoint should be based around a franchise to warrant a tag for that franchise.

Tag

Example

Adventure Time

Adventure Time: Legends of OOO

All That

All That Vital Information Dispenser #1

Angry Birds

Angry Birds Rio

Barbie

Barbie in Princess Power Dress Up Game

Batman

Batman In Crime Wave

Beano

The Great Beano Cake Off

Beeserker

Beeserker: The Videogame!

Ben 10

Ben 10 - Battle Ready

Between the Lions

Lionel's Talking Gizmo!

Beyblade

Beyblade Chaos

Big Nate

Big Nate's Network

Blue's Clues

Blue's Clues Ghost Hunt

Captain Underpants

The Captain Underpants Rescue Raider 4000

Cars

Cars

Castlevania

Castlevania 2: Priest Battle

CatDog

CatDog's All You Can't Eat Game

Cheetos

Cheetos Chase

Chowder

The Great Chowder Escape

Chuck E. Cheese

Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Panic!

Chuggington

Old Puffer Pete's Puzzle Panic

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Clifford's Big Parade

Copa Jetix

A Lavanderia Copa Jetix

Crash Bandicoot

Crash Tag Team Racing

Curious George

Mix and Paint

Cyberchase

Cyberchase: The Quest 1 & 2

Danny Phantom

Danny Phantom Dueling Decks

Despicable Me

Bee-Do!

Dexter's Laboratory

Dexter's Labyrinth

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Old-Timey Ice Cream Parlour!

Dinosaur Train

Buddy's A-Maze-ing Adventure

Dora the Explorer

Dora's 3-D Backpack Adventure

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball Z Tournament

DragonflyTV

Nanobots

Duck Hunt

Kill The Dog From Duck Hunt

Ed, Edd n Eddy

Ed, Edd n Eddy - Clash Of The Idiots

Family Guy

Brian's Shoot 'em Up Bar

Fanboy & Chum Chum

Fanboy & Chum Chum: Bubble Trouble

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman

Fetch! Face-Off

Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy Returns- Flash Game

Five Nights at Freddy's

Five Nights of Love-FNAF Dating Sim

Franny's Feet

Shoebox Adventures: Fancy Shoes

Frozen

Frozen Elsa Fire Makeover

Garfield

Garfield's Comic Creator

Garoto Emoticon

O Pesadelo do Garoto Emoticon (The Ring)

Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls: Rumble's Revenge

Half-Life

Half-Life Reloaded

Handy Manny

Hop Up, Jump In!

Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels Ferrari X-V Speed Trial

Imagination Movers

Warehouse Mouse in: The Bubble Room Game

Jake and the Never Land Pirates

Jake's Heroic Race

Jimmy Neutron

Jimmy Neutron Sea Minus

Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo - Bravo Boogie

Jungle Junction

Ellyvan's Coconut Parade

Justice League

Justice League: Curse of the Underworld

Kirby

Kirby's Airride Puzzle

LEGO

Pepper's Skateboard Challenge

Life Savers

Life Savers Waterpark Pinball

Little Einsteins

The Great Sky Race

Little People

Little People® Favorite Friend Finder

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes Avalanche Snowboarding

Madagascar

Madagascar 3 Race Across Europe

Mario Bros.

Super Mario 63

Martha Speaks

Skits Cooks

Mega Man

Mega Man RPG

Metal Gear

Metal Gear Awesome

Metal Slug

Metal Slug Brutal

Metroid

Metroid: Genesis

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Mickey's Treasure Hunt

Minecraft

Minecraft Tower Defence 2

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat Karnage

My Little Pony

My Little Pony: Applejack's Horseshoe Toss

Octonauts

Octonauts

Ooh, Aah & You

Ooh & Aah's Coco-Nutty Bowling

Pac-Man

Pac-Man

Passatempo

Clicando a Turma

Peep and the Big Wide World

Hop To It!

Phineas and Ferb

Phineas and Ferb in the Transport-inators of Doooom

Pokemon

Who's That Pokemon?

Power Rangers

Power Rangers in Space Red Ranger to the Rescue

Pou

Pou Kitchen Slacking

Regular Show

Regular Show Trash n Dash

Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat

Counting Koi

Samurai Jack

Samurai Jack: Code of the Samurai

Scooby-Doo

Scooby Doo! Monster Madness

Shaun the Sheep

Shaun the Sheep: Home Sheep Home

Shrek

Shrek 'n' Slide

Sonic the Hedgehog

Ultimate Flash Sonic

Special Agent Oso

Oso's Special Training Center

Spider-Man

Spider-Man: City Raid

SpongeBob SquarePants

The Spongebob Squarepants Movie 3D Game

Spyro the Dragon

Spyro Cavern Escape

Star Wars

LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2

Street Fighter

Street Fighter Flash

Tangled

Tangled Double Trouble

Teen Titans

Teen Titans: Battle Blitz

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Time

The Avengers

The Avengers: Bunker Busters 2

The Fairly OddParents

Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour 2: Co-Pilot Chaos

The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda and the Lampshade of No Real Significance

The Powerpuff Girls

Powerpuff Girls Pillow Fight

The Simpsons

The Simpsons Movie: Bart Simpson's Naked Skate

The Smurfs

The Smurfs Clumsy's Central Park Dash

Touhou Project

東方悠繰録

Toy Story

Toy Story Memory Game

Transformers

Transformers Dark of the Moon - Hidden Objects

Turma da Mônica

Guarda-Roupa da Mônica

Têtes à Claques

Têtes à Claques - Le Air hockey

Undertale

Bad Time Simulator (Sans Fight)

Veggietales

Veggie Tales Veggie Football

WALL-E

WALL-E: Cup Shuffle

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby

WordGirl

Synonym Toast

Wreck-It Ralph

Wreck-It Ralph: Fix It Felix Jr.

X-Men

Wolverine and the X-Men: M.R.D. Escape

Zootopia

Zootopia Hair Salon

Game Engines

Game Engines are any programming tool used to make games at a Higher Level than using the tech directly. Note: Techs don't count as Game Engines, for example the ShiVa3D Engine is used to make ShiVa3D plugin games but ShiVa3D games shouldn't be tagged. Also if the engine has a web client, it shouldn't be tagged as that Engine, for example Tic80 shouldn't be tagged Tic80. At least three games in Flashpoint should be created in an engine to warrant a tag for that engine.